The forgotten genius
Subtitle: the biography of Robert Hooke 1635-1703
By: by Stephen Inwood
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
Subjects: Hooke, Robert, -- 1635-1703; Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Architects -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Work titles: Man who knew too much
Description: "Robert Hooke stood out as an inventive, versatile, and prolific scientist and architect in an age of brilliant minds. But for three hundred years his reputation has been overshadowed by those of his two greatest contemporaries, his friend Sir Christopher Wren and his rival Sir Isaac Newton. Historian Dr. Stephen Inwood re-creates the many facets of Hooke's life as an inventor, astronomer, and anatomist, candid diarist, braggart, and hoarder of money and secrets."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: The man who knew too much. London : Macmillan, 2002

Includes bibliographical references (p. 444-455) and index